Performance Characterization and Benchmarking [electronic resource] : 5th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2013, Trento, Italy, August 26, 2013, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Raghunath Nambiar, Meikel Poess.

TPC State of the Council 2013 -- TPC-BiH: A Benchmark for Bitemporal Databases -- Towards Comprehensive Measurement of Consistency Guarantees for Cloud-Hosted Data Storage Services -- TPC Express – A New Path for TPC Benchmarks -- TPC-H Analyzed: Hidden Messages and Lessons Learned from an Influential Benchmark -- Architecture and Performance Characteristics of a PostgreSQL Implementation of the TPC-E and TPC-V Workloads -- A Practice of TPC-DS Multidimensional Implementation on NoSQL Database Systems -- PRIMEBALL: A Parallel Processing Framework Benchmark for Big Data Applications in the Cloud -- CEPBen: A Benchmark for Complex Event Processing Systems.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 5th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2013, held in Trento, Italy, in August 2013. It contains 7 selected peer-reviewed papers, a report from the TPC Public Relations Committee, and one invited paper. The papers present novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization.